Prevalence and correlates of healthy lifestyle behaviors among early cancer survivors

BMC Cancer

Table 1 Lifestyle outcome measurements

Behavior	Questionnaire/example question	Categories/scales	Items	Item-range	Score-range
Physical Activity^a	IPAQ Short last 7 days self-administered format	Walking	2		MET-min/week
		Moderate intensive activity	2
		Vigorous intensive activity	2
Smoking	“Do you currently smoke?”	Current smoking behavior	1	0-1	0-1
Smoking	“Did you smoke in the past?”	History of smoking (quit smoking before/ after cancer diagnosis)	1	0-1	0-1
Alcohol consumption	Dutch standard questionnaire on alcohol consumption	Number of days and glasses of alcohol on weekdays and weekends	4	0-6	0-4
Alcohol consumption	Dutch standard questionnaire on alcohol consumption	Binge drinking^b	1	1-8	0-7
Vegetable and fruit consumption^c	Dutch standard questionnaire on nutrition	Number of servings fruit/vegetable (spoons, pieces, glasses) per day and number of days per week	9	1-9	0-7

Note: IPAQ Short: International Physical Activity Questionnaire Short Form; MET: Metabolic Equivalent of Task
^a ≥ 600 MET-min/week corresponds to ≥ five days per week performing any combination of walking, moderate or vigorous physical activities
^b ≥ Six servings of alcohol during one day
^c Vegetable consumption was expressed in grams per day. The total score for fruit consumption was the number of servings of fruit per day (up to 100 g fruit may be replaced by fruit juice)

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